547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.